Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

- Knight, Philip

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.